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Memoirs Of A Cold War Son

by Jr. Gaines Post

33,13€ + 10% CARD

 A memoir of American boyhood during World War II. Gaines Post was a gangly, bespectacled teenager preparing to spend a year in Paris with his father and elder brother. His story is one of high school years spent in Wisconsin, and of Camus-influenced undergraduate years at Cornell University.
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Making Of A Black Scholar - From Georgia To The Ivy League

by Porter Horace A. Porter

34,45€ + 10% CARD

 This captivating and illuminating book is a memoir of a young black man moving from rural Georgia to life as a student and teacher in the Ivy League as well as a history of the changes in American education that developed in response to the civil rights movement, the war in Vietnam, and affirmative action. Born in 1950, Horace Porter starts out in rural Georgia in a house that has neither electricity nor running water. In 1968, he leaves his home in Columbus, Georgia-thanks to an academic scholarship to Amherst College-and lands in an upper-class, mainly white world. Focusing on such experiences in his American education, Porter's story is both unique and representative of his time.The Making of a Black Scholar is structured around schools. Porter attends Georgia's segregated black schools until he enters the privileged world of Amherst College. He graduates (spending one semester at Morehouse College) and moves on to graduate study at Yale. He starts his teaching career at Detroit's Wayne State University and spends the 1980s at Dartmouth College and the 1990s at Stanford University.Porter writes about working to establish the first black studies program at Amherst, the challenges of graduate study at Yale, the infamous Dartmouth Review, and his meetings with such writers and scholars as Ralph Ellison, Tillie Olsen, James Baldwin, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. He ends by reflecting on an unforeseen move to the University of Iowa, which he ties into a return to the values of his childhood on a Georgia farm. In his success and the fulfillment of his academic aspirations, Porter represents an era, a generation, of possibility and achievement.
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Tight Spaces

by High Egyirba High, Muhanji Cherry Muhanji e Scott Kesho Scott

26,43€ + 10% CARD

 This expanded edition of Tight Spaces includes six new essays that explore the fulfilling spaces inhabited by Kesho Scott, Cherry Muhanji, and Egyirba High since their book was originally published in 1987. Tight Spaces won the American Book Award in 1988.
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Black Eagle Child - The Facepaint Narratives

by Ray A. Young Bear

34,38€ + 10% CARD

 A candid, poetic account of childhood and young manhood through the eyes of a Native American, this vivid narrative is destined to become a central moral text for our time. Through the persona of Edgar Bearchild-a member of the Black Eagle Child Settlement-Ray A. Young Bear takes readers on an unforgettable "journey of words" as he documents grief and anguish countered by an abundance of humor, pride, and insight.
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Prairie Populist - The Memoirs Of Luna Kellie

37,03€ + 10% CARD

 Populist singer, Mid-Roader, editor, publisher, wife, mother of eleven, Luna Kellie was a well-informed, fervent member of the Farmers' Alliance movement in the latter part of the nineteenth century. Radicalized by railroad monopolies, corrupt government, recurring drought, heavy mortgages, and a desperate combination of rising costs and falling returns, prairie farmers were turning their energy toward raising "less corn and more hell."Kellie actively sought to organize Nebraska into cooperatives and educate rural people about land, transportation, and money reform. Her compelling, often heartbreaking memoirs-written on the backs of ornate red-and-gold Farmers' Alliance certificates in 1925-give us her own description of how she became motivated to join the Alliance and participate in the Populist party. Kellie writes of her homesteading and political life from the age of eighteen to forty, of failed crops, mortgaged fields, intense hardships, and her devastation at the death of her children.One of the most complete accounts of the Mid-Road political faction available, relevant in many ways to the plight of today's farmers, A Prairie Populist should be read by anyone with an interest in national politics, the farm protest movement, women's studies, and American cultural history.
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Unfriendly Fire - A Mother'S Memoir

by Mullen Peg Mullen

30,41€ + 10% CARD

 In 1968 Michael Mullen, a graduate student in biochemistry, was drafted; in 1969 he was sent to Vietnam as a foot soldier in Colonel Norman Schwarzkopf's Charlie Company; and in 1970 he was killed by the same "friendly fire" that destroyed thousands of other lives during the Vietnam War.Back home on the family farm in Iowa, his parents made his death a crusade to awaken all parents to the insanity of war. C. D. B. Bryan's Friendly Fire and the TV movie of the same name documented these dramatic years, and Peg Mullen became a national symbol of grassroots activism. Now Peg Mullen shifts from symbol to reality as she tells her story in print for the first time.Outspoken, fearless, and wickedly humorous, Peg Mullen had a duel mission in the years after Michael's death: to penetrate the lies and evasions behind the artillery misfire that killed her oldest son and to publicize the senseless horror of the Vietnam War. Unfriendly Fire draws on the many letters sent to the Mullens after Michael's death; in addition, Michael's own bitter, weary letters home are reprinted. In these the voices of parents, brothers, sisters, comrades, teachers, and Michael himself echo Peg Mullen's call for truth and peace.
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Flight Dreams - A Life In The Midwestern Landscape

by Lisa Knopp

60,88€ + 10% CARD

 "When I was eleven the world was filled with birds,"writes Lisa Knopp of her girlhood in Burlington, Iowa. Picking up where she left off in her first book, Field of Vision, Knopp knits together sections of her life story through a pattern of images drawn from nature. The most prevalent of these unifying themes are metaphors of flight-birds, wind, moving upward and outward and across the midwestern landscape from Nebraska and Iowa to southern Illinois.Reminiscent of Thoreau's introspective nature writing and Dillard's taut, personal prose, each chapter in Flight Dreams stands alone as a distinct narrative, yet each is linked by profoundly personal descriptions of dreams, the natural world, defining experiences, and chance encounters with people that later prove to be fateful. Part Eastern meditation, part dream sequence, part historical reconstruction, Flight Dreams testifies to a deep understanding of how the natural world-its visible and invisible elements-guides our destinies.
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Tales Of An American Hobo

by Charles Elmer Fox

29,81€ + 10% CARD

 This work is a lasting legacy to conventional society, teaching about a bygone era of American history and a rare breed of humanity who chose to live by the rails and on the road.
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Lucky American Childhood

by Paul Engle

33,06€ + 10% CARD

 Suitable for people with memories of the small-town America that the author describes with such affectionate realism and to those interested in the roots of this renowned man of letters.
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Letters From Togo

by Susan Blake

37,03€ + 10% CARD

 Blake's adventurous essays-her Letters from Togo-are based on the letters she wrote to her friends from Lome, the West African capital where she spent a Fulbright year teaching American literature from 1983 to 1984. As Blake begins the process of making sense out of a vibrant, seeming anarchy, we are pulled along with her into the heart of Togo-a tiny dry strip of a country no one can even find on a map.With her delightful prose and insight for detail Blake introduces us to Mahouna, her housekeeper, who runs a cold drink business from his refrigerator in a country where electricity is unreliable; to American Lee Ann and her Togolese family, who works at the American school to earn the fees for a private education for her children; and to the suave Ren wearing silk shirts and a most seductive smile, who teeters on the edge of the Togolese and expatriate worlds.Since Lom is both an overgrown village and a cosmopolitan city, Blake's exhilarating, often humorous experiences range from buying a car to attending a traditional tom-tom funeral, from visiting people who hunt with bows and arrows to enduring faculty meetings, from negotiating the politics of buying produce to lecturing on Afro-American literature at the English Club. Together, her enlivening letters trace the pattern of adjusting to a foreign environment and probe the connections between Africa and this curious, energetic American. Not "out of Africa" but within it, they take advantage of time and perspective to penetrate the universal experience of being a stranger in a strange land.
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Flight Dreams - A Life In The Midwestern Landscape

by Lisa Knopp

30,84€

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 "When I was eleven the world was filled with birds", writes Lisa Knopp of her girlhood in Burlington, Iowa. Picking up where she left off in her first book, Knopp knits together sections of her life story through a pattern of images drawn from nature. The most prevalent of these unifying themes are metaphors of flight - birds, wind, moving upward and outward and across the midwestern landscape.
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City Watch - Discovering The Uncommon Chicago

by Jon Anderson

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 Drawn from Anderson's newspaper column of the same name, "City Watch" introduces readers to an eclectic mix of social clubs, subcultures, and individuals, from "Foraging Friends" a group of penniless ecologists who forage for wild foods, to a group simply known as "Some Chicago Anarchists."
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Love In A Global Village - A Celebration Of Intercultural Families In The Midwest

by Jessie Carroll Grearson e Lauren B. Smith

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 In praise of diversity, this is an account of the triumphs of 15 intercultural families and of the perseverance of their relationships in midwestern America. Four sections follow lives from courtship , through marriage to raising children and the preservation of culture and traditions.
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The Anti-Warrior - A Memoir

by Milt Felsen

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 An anti-war activist tells his experiences in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade.

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